It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur plans miscarry because they have no aim.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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